Looking at the world-Russia-Ukraine conflict, the secret documents of the US military are suspected of leaking, and the degree of US involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict is deeper than expected.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 9 (Xinhua) The New York Times recently reported in succession that a number of suspected secret documents of the U.S. military have recently appeared on Twitter and other social media, including information on Ukrainian forces and weapons allocation, battlefield maps, casualties of both sides of Russia and Ukraine, and even information marked as "top secret".
On February 19th, in Washington, D.C., a protester took part in a rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Jie photo
As of the 7th, the parties have different views on the authenticity of the document. The US Department of Justice announced an investigation and the Ukrainian government held a high-level emergency meeting. If the document is true, it means that the United States is more deeply involved in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and its efforts to provide information to support Ukraine are more than ever known.
Highly sensitive
The New York Times reported on the 6th that some people have recently uploaded a batch of military secrets on social media such as Twitter, "Telegraph" software and four-leaf website, and the number may exceed 100. The mainstream American media reported again on the 7th that a new batch of military secrets involving Ukraine and the Middle East appeared on social media.
According to many media reports, the US government is trying to "delete posts", but there are still documents circulating on the Internet.
Based on various sources, some documents are photos of battle maps, with detailed marks and different dates, with a time span of about 5 weeks, and the latest date is March 1. However, although the document contains many military details, it does not involve specific operational plans.
This is the Pentagon filmed in Arlington, Virginia, USA on August 26th, 2021. Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Jie photo
One of the documents contains the training and equipment delivery of Ukrainian recruits from January to April this year, showing that Ukraine is forming 12 brigades of combat troops, 9 of which are trained and replenished by the United States and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization member States. Of these nine brigades, six are scheduled to be in place by March 31st, and the remaining three are scheduled to complete their combat readiness by April 30th. These nine brigades need more than 250 tanks and more than 350 armored vehicles in total.
These documents also list the ammunition consumption rate of the Ukrainian army, including the "Haima" high-mobility rocket launcher system aided by the United States. The United States claims that this rocket launcher can launch a precise strike against targets such as ammunition depots, infrastructure and troop assembly areas behind the Russian army.
There is also a document marked as "Top Secret", which lists "the conflict situation as of March 1", including the record that a total of 16,000 to 17,500 Russian soldiers died in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, while more than 70,000 soldiers died in Uzbekistan. This is quite different from the Pentagon’s previous claims that the Russian casualties were nearly 200,000 and the Ukrainian casualties exceeded 100,000.
The authenticity is disputed.
The New York Times reported that the first batch of documents appeared to be posted on Discord chat software in early March, citing an analyst of the Dutch investigation website "Ringing Cat".
According to Reuters’s report on the 7th, three American officials who did not want to be named reported that the Russian side or pro-Russian people distributed these secret documents, but the above officials did not disclose any evidence or details. The Russian embassy in the United States has not responded to relevant questions for the time being.
Some analysts believe that the military details such as forces and weapons configuration in the document "look real." For example, the ammunition consumption rate of the "Haima" system disclosed in the document has never been disclosed by the US before.
On September 17, 2020, Ukrainian soldiers participated in a multinational joint military exercise codenamed "Fast Trident -2020" held in Lviv, western Ukraine. Xinhua news agency
Others believe that although the US has announced the launch of the investigation, it cannot rule out the possibility of the US directing and acting itself.
The United States and Ukraine are trying to downplay the possible impact of document leakage, but many analysts have regarded this incident as the biggest information leakage since the escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
Some analysts believe that the leaked documents, whether true or false, will inevitably have a great impact on all parties, involving military deployment, intelligence security and sharing, personnel verification and other aspects, and may even affect the direction of the Russian-Ukrainian war to some extent this spring.
This is the White House filmed in Washington, DC on January 20th. Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Jie photo
Under the leadership of the United States, the West continued to send weapons and equipment to Ukraine, providing personnel training and intelligence support, and constantly adding fuel to the fire of this crisis. Although the White House acknowledged that the United States provided Ukraine with "a lot of concrete and timely" Russian-related information, it still claimed that the United States had no intention of directly participating in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
In response to the US statement, the Russian side has repeatedly refuted that NATO, led by the United States, collects information unfavorable to Russia around the clock and provides advanced weapons to Ukraine. In fact, it has become a participant in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
Peskov, press secretary of the Russian President, said that "we have no doubt that the United States and NATO are directly or indirectly involved in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict", and the degree of their participation in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is deepening. (Zheng Yuning)